I have been working on some research analysis for a while now that is soon to become the basis for my dissertation. I have 50 hours of interviews, 3000 pages of typed transcripts, thousands of quotes, and hundreds of pages of analysis. My brain hurts and I know that if I keep plugging away at this, I'll be finished sooner rather than later.

However, it's football season around the corner and that means I NEED to keep up with what's going on - not just because I run / own this site,...

Dateline: Brussels, Belgium.

Global warming is largely caused by humans in Europe, I'm quite certain. Not just any ol' average European, but a particularly nasty one that is prevalent at every turn. You can't go ANYWHERE and not see them.

Who am I talking about?

Of course. I'm referring to the ever present European smoker. They're everywhere. I guess I had forgotten how bad it was 6 years ago when we lived in London. But I think it's gotten...

Hello from Brussels, Belgium.

We arrived in Brussels at approximately 8:30am local time (2:30am EDT). The weather was beautiful and we had a nice flight. Olivia caused no problems on the flight and was great the whole time. She slept from about 7:30PM EDT to 7:45AM Brussels time (or about 6 hours total).

When we took off, Olivia pretended like she was on Little Einsteins (without any promting from us whatsoever) and started patting her legs and then when we took...

I finished my comp exams last night after getting up at 4am yesterday and getting in to the office at 7am and writing until 5pm yesterday. My brain hurt but at the end I felt almost giddy that it was over

Jill wanted to celebrate so we went out for a great dinner at PF Changs and Olivia was on her best behavior...hard to believe that she's 1 and caused 'nary a fuss

Gameday is here and I can't wait. I woke up at 4am again this morning ready to watch games all...

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